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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Hamm (City of Hamm, Westfalen) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Brown and olive-green note with an ornate scroll and volute border. The central vignette presents a detailed line-engraved view of the Alter Bahnhof (old railway station) of Hamm, a multi-storey neo-Gothic building rendered with architectural precision. The denomination '50' appears in decorative roundels at each corner, with the issuer legend across the top and the city name along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein d. Stadt ALTER BAHNHOF Hamm i. Westf. 50 |
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Hamm's 1920 Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency currency printed across Germany as the Reichsbank struggled to keep small-denomination coin in circulation following the war. Cities and towns were effectively left to supply their own fractional currency, and the results varied wildly in quality — Hamm's series falls on the competent but unspectacular end of that spectrum. The printing was handled locally, which was common for Westphalian municipalities of this size.
Short-term validity clauses on notes like these meant most were redeemed and destroyed within months, making intact survivors more common in collector holdings than in worn circulated grades.